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In "Latinos still see Cisneros as larger than life" (News, Oct. 9), Flynn McRoberts paints a picture of Spanish-speaking Americans as a segment of American society desperately seeking role models and heroes. I suggest that Spanish-speaking Americans have the same role models and heroes as every other American. Henry Cisneros, however, is not one of them. Mr. Cisneros, his personal and legal problems aside, is nothing more than a hand-picked lackey of the liberal elitists in America.

Henry Cisneros' own words may be used against him at his upcoming conspiracy trial, a federal judge said Monday in Washington in a ruling that allows prosecutors to use 22 tape recordings secretly made by the former Housing secretary's ex-mistress. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin rejected the defense's extensive effort to throw out the recordings, which captured conversations in which Cisneros and one-time paramour Linda Jones discussed payments he made to her. Sporkin's ruling had been expected, given comments he made during a 13-day hearing on the admissibility of about three dozen tapes.

Creating a healthy stock of affordable rental and housing units is the most durable form of economic development a city can have, former Mayor Henry Cisneros said this month at the 2006 Housing Summit. "Economic development specialists have to remember that home is the place where a job goes to live," said Cisneros, who was secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration. "You can't talk about building jobs for economic development without addressing the housing development."

While serving as mayor of San Antonio and as a Cabinet official in the Clinton administration, Henry Cisneros developed a host of government policies about housing. Today he is developing real housing -- places people can live. Through a partnership called American City-Vista, Cisneros is developing moderately priced, central-city communities that offer single-family homes for less than $100,000. Construction has just begun on Cisneros' first Houston project, a 171-home subdivision near Almeda Mall on the near southeast side.

A 10-year, $20 million-plus independent counsel investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros ended Thursday with release of a much-disputed report accusing the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service of hindering a probe into possible income tax evasion by Cisneros. The 745-page report alleges that Clinton administration officials blocked independent counsel David Barrett's efforts to scrutinize Cisneros' personal finances by limiting his investigative authority to a single tax year and by having IRS officials in Washington take control of a Texas-based review of Cisneros' taxes.

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Houston Astros - INSIDE PITCH Jose Cisnero couldn't follow up his first career win with his second. Cisnero, 24, allowed one hit and one run Tuesday during a crucial eighth inning against the Kansas City Royals. He entered the game with the bases loaded and no outs, then proceeded to walk in an inherited run. Two other runners scored as a result of an E-6 while Cisnero was on the mound, as Kansas City turned a late 3-2 deficit into a 6-3 lead.

It's pushing 8 p.m. inside the ugliest building ever bought, paid for and owned by the American people. Henry Cisneros, this nation's lanky and cerebral secretary of housing and urban development, is holed up in a sprawling 10th-floor office at the top of the concrete HUD silo. It's a building where the people who worship at the abstract altar of policy and public administration remain undisturbed by distractions like light or color. All afternoon, and now as the sun sets, the new secretary-on the job for just a few months-has been stuck in this dismal building, winding his way through "Senate stuff."

Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros expressed cautious optimism Wednesday about Chicago's troubled public housing as he outlined efforts to improve living conditions for the 1.3 million families in the nation's housing projects. "Considering the size of the challenge, we are making slogging progress in Chicago," said Cisneros in releasing a report on "The Transformation of America's Public Housing." Although Chicago's Cabrini-Green was described in the report as among the "worst and most infamous projects in the nation," the report said the Department of Housing and Urban Development "has accelerated the (its)

This fall, elementary and middle school students will walk through the doors of the brand new Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy in Echo Park, Calif. Although it's not the first school in the Los Angeles Unified School District to be named for an author, the honor is rare. Cisneros is the author of "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories" and "The House on Mango Street," winner of the American Book Award. Her family migrated from Mexico to Chicago, where she was born in 1954. Cisneros was awarded a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship in 1995.

After less than four months on the job, and with the Chicago Housing Authority not yet on its own feet, it's much too soon for the CHA's federal management team to be talking about withdrawing from Chicago by year's end. Yet that is the timetable being pushed by Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros and his public housing troubleshooter, Assistant Secretary Joseph Shuldiner. Some progress has been made since the Department of Housing and Urban Development seized control of the beleaguered public housing agency on May 30. Partial replacement plans have been announced for three of the CHA's worst high-rise complexes, new lines of responsibility have been drawn for security and maintenance services and a badly needed ethics policy has been posted.